How to create 1 million manufacturing jobs in U.S

Economist calls on Americans to buy more American-made goods

(Cleveland Plain Dealer) If housing was growing now at the pace it was until 2006, unemployment would likely be 2 percentage points lower and economic growth would be 2 points higher.

And if Americans spent just $100 billion on U.S. goods instead of foreign goods – a gap that has widened the last few years – then that would create more than 1 million jobs in manufacturing in the United States.